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We too will say: Ailonit, a sexually underdeveloped woman, is a term meaning: Like a ram [dukhranit], because like a male sheep [ayyil] she does not bear children.
Mishnah: With regard to a female convert, or a captive woman, or a female slave, who were ransomed with regard to the captive, or who converted with regard to the convert, or who was freed with regard to the female slave, when she was less than 3 years and one day old, for all of these, their marr
Talmud: Rav Huna said: With regard to a convert who is a minor, one immerses him in a mikveh with the consent of the court. As a minor lacks the capacity to make halakhic decisions, the court is authorized to make those decisions in his stead.
What is Rav Huna coming to teach us? Is he teaching that it is a privilege for the minor to convert, and one may act in a person’s interests even in his absence? We already learned that explicitly in a Mishnah (Eiruvin 81b): One may act in a person’s interests in his absence, but one may not act ag
Rav Huna’s statement was necessary lest you say: With regard to a non-Jew, licentiousness is preferable for him, so conversion is contrary to his interests, just as we maintain that with regard to a slave, licentiousness is certainly preferable. Just as a slave has no interest in assuming the res